A Role for the Geomagnetic Field in Cell Regulation

Abstract

We advance the hypothesis that biological systems utilize the geomagnetic field (GMF) for functional purposes by means of ion cyclotron resonance-like (ICR) mechanisms. Numerous ICR-designed experiments have demonstrated that living things are sensitive, in varying degrees, to magnetic fields that are equivalent to both changes in the general magnetostatic intensity of the GMF, as well as its temporal perturbations. We propose the existence of ICR-like cell regulation processes, homologous to the way that biochemical messengers alter the net biological state through competing processes of enhancement and inhibition. In like manner, combinations of different resonance frequencies all coupled to the same local magnetic field provide a unique means for cell regulation. Recent work on ultraweak ICR magnetic fields by Zhadin and others fits into our proposed framework if one assumes that cellular systems generate time-varying electric fields of the order 100 mV/cm with bandwidths that include relevant ICR frequencies.

The local earth magnetic field changes impact on weekly hospitalization due to unstable angina pectoris

“…To understand the process more completely, it is necessary to focus on possible changes of cellular and molecular regulation in accordance to local Earth time varying magnetic field (TVMF) strength changes. It is already known that isolated animal cells have specific sensitivity to the strength and frequency of fluctuation of the TVMF [4][5][6]. The TVMF regulatory effect proposed to be associated with the ion cyclotron resonance mechanism [5] whose effect on extracted myocardial cells has been recently demonstrated under laboratory conditions [7].…”

“…It is already known that isolated animal cells have specific sensitivity to the strength and frequency of fluctuation of the TVMF [4][5][6]. The TVMF regulatory effect proposed to be associated with the ion cyclotron resonance mechanism [5] whose effect on extracted myocardial cells has been recently demonstrated under laboratory conditions [7]. Scientists have shown that healthy people in isolation from the magnetic field (MF) significantly increases their capillary blood flow and reduces the diastolic blood pressure [8].…”

External control of theDrosophila melanogasteregg to imago development period by specific combinations of 3D low-frequency electric and magnetic fields

“…The mechanism of electromagnetic field action in live systems has been extensively discussed earlier (Al Ghamdi, 2012;Goodman et al, 1993;Kohane and Tiller, 2000;Lednev, 1991;Liboff, 1985Liboff, , 2009Liboff, , 2010Liboff and McLeod, 1988;Panagopoulos et al, 2000Panagopoulos et al, , 2002Panagopoulos et al, , 2013Panagopoulos, 2012;Vincze et al, 2008). They proposed that such fieldinduced resonance effects may be attributed to (i) medium polarization, (ii) charged particle motion in the medium; and (iii) charged particles moving through the membrane channels.…”

“…(Liboff, 2007), clinical treatment of non-unions and spinal fusion in bone (Liboff, 2006), ion parametric resonance (Blanchard and Blackman, 1994;Lednev, 1991;Vincze et al, 2008), aminoacid conductivity (Alberto et al, 2008a,b;Comisso et al, 2006;Del Giudice et al, 2002;Pazur, 2004;Zhadin et al, 1998), protein hydrolysis (Novikov and Fesenko, 2001) and stem cell differentiation (Gaetini et al, 2009). As noted by Liboff (2010), one possibility to understand EMF phenomenon is that the frequency must be specifically tuned to the unhydrated ion. However, it is quite difficult to imagine the presence of such ions in aqueous solutions.…”

“…The equation giving the respective frequency is similar to that describing ion cyclotron resonance (Liboff, 2009(Liboff, , 2010. The developed theory takes into account viscous friction (Liboff, 2009(Liboff, , 2010Vincze et al, 2008), but does not include thermal diffusion, being therefore only an approximation to the more correct description.…”